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Our Employees Make the Difference
I’m proud to tell you that in the past year, GI Rubbish of Ventura/Los Angeles County has reduced more than 50 tons per year of harmful air emissions from our fleet of garbage and recycling trucks.
In addition to investing in our equipment, we are also investing in our most important resource, our people. To help our drivers spend less time on the road to and from work, WM established a vanpool program in 2005. A total of 24employees participate in the program. As one employee told me, “It’s very nice. People are very happy and appreciate the company paying the bill. We are saving a lot of time and saving a lot of money, and also saving our cars by not putting on extra miles or wearing out the tires.”
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Landfill Permitting Process
Waste Management of California (WM) acquired the Simi Valley Landfill and Recycling Center (SVLRC) in 1983, from the Ventura County Regional Sanitation Department and has operated it as a Class III Municipal Solid Waste Facility. In addition to waste disposal, SVLRC engages in recycling green waste, scrap metal, wood waste, asphalt and concrete, and white goods. Additionally, WM is generating “Green Energy” from landfill gas. WM has developed and maintains a long-standing relationship with the local communities we serve.
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Disposal of Sharps & Household Prescriptions
It is important that prescription medications generated by households are disposed of in a safe manner to ensure that we do not contaminate our ground water supply or harm children or pets.
Flushing your household medications down the drain can lead to contamination of ground water, because wastewater treatment facilities cannot neutralize the active ingredients in prescription medications.
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Community Partnerships
Waste Management is proud to partner with Habitat for Humanity and Freecycle, providing life-changing opportunities for many families. Our partnership with Habitat for Humanity means that even more families will achieve the benefits of homeownership - economic opportunity, educational opportunity, greater involvement in the community and a safe, simple, decent place to live. Our partnership with freecycle is truly changing the world one gift at a time. Freecycle combats wastefulness by giving people an alternative to throwing out perfectly good items as they upgraded or outgrew old possessions.
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Cajun Festival
Waste Management was proud to be a corporate sponsor for the 17th Annual Cajun Festival. This year’s festival took place on Memorial Weekend, May 27th & 28th. This annual event, organized by the Simi Sunrise Rotary Club, is one of the largest Cajun Festivals west of the Mississippi.
Children of all ages enjoyed the greatly expanded "Cajun Kid's" Area and, with one of the largest and shaded outside dance floors in the entire country, hudredes of people danced to the lively beat of the phenomenal Cajun and Zydeco bands.
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Did you Know?
Waste Management’s landfills provide more than 16,000 acres of protected land for wildlife, and 15 are certified by the Wildlife Habitat Council.
WM operates one of the largest fleets of low emission heavy-duty natural gas trucks in the country and has the largest fleet of 100 percent natural gas trucks in the solid waste industry. Southern California is home to the heaviest concentration of natural gas trucks within all of WM’s operations in North America.
Waste Management, combined with its wholly owned subsidiary Recycle America (WMRA), is North America’s largest recycler handling 5.8 million tons of commodities each year, saving more than 41 million trees and enough energy to power 848,000 households.
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